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Fantastic game and it was great to see them supporting Switch too. For a fighting game it's got a really good story and some amazing fan service for people who are old enough to play the original. Speaking of which, I still remember when that launched on Megadrive and SNES and caused quite a stir and its crazy to think here I am some 30 years later and still playing it

I got MK11 Ultimate Edition and the Castlevania collection, I was going to get the Tomb Raider collection but I already own Shadows on disc and saw Rise on CD Keys for £5. I may pop back for some other cheap old games

Surely anyone who cares must have bought this by now, it's constantly on sale for peanuts

Not had one of these but got a £10 gift card from my Microsoft rewards and bought some Xbox credit from cd keys, also found Rise of The Tomb Raider on there for £5

@BlueOcean yeah it's a real bargain at that price, Rise is my favourite and I preferred it to Uncharted 4. Actually I've found a few games in that sale so it's gonna be an expensive month and I'll need to get an external hard drive now

@thenewguy for the most part its completely fine but a couple of areas on the new dlc and certain combinations of effects introduce pretty obnoxious screen tearing, its frustrating when it's likely to be only a small settings tweak to fix it. As you said frame rate locks and consistency should be the overwhelming priority and especially when you're playing with the grunt the Series X has

@thenewguy I'll be playing it on Series X but it's great to hear it works well on the S too, speaking of your resolution comment I wish they'd drop the resolution on Sea of Thieves to lock it to 60fps on the X

Thank god I didn't buy Mortal Kombat 11 in the previous sale, I can get the Ultimate Edition now. Also the Witcher 3 price is crazy good for that game and also a free next gen upgrade when it comes

EA turning back into a real single player games developer? I never thought I'd see the day. Weirdly I've never actually played Dead Space so I'm not sure whether to play the first now or wait

A very good week, I'll be adding the og Xbox games and giving the Ascent and Flight Simulator a go, I'm excited to fly round the world and see places that I'll likely never be able to in real life

Cool, I'll be downloading both of them

@Doctorwhoooourgh @themightyant Resident Evil 6? Why would Sony care how that game runs on Series X? Assuming you mean Village, that isn't what the agreement was about

"A Ubisoft Original" seems to mean looking the same as every other game in the genre

I've got about 200gb free at the moment so I'm good

It was off the back of E3 that I picked up my Series X and I can't think of many games I've enjoyed playing more than Sea of Thieves over the last year or so, I think its great

@Neverwild the PS5 isn't playing any of them though, I can pick up a compatible 360 or og Xbox disc and just put it in my Series X and play that game at much higher quality then the original version, all without paying a monthly subscription. Ironic that one of the main criticisms in the article was the Gamepass subscription and your defence was a subscription

@BAMozzy well said and for me Xbox is doing far more to make their games, old and new, available to everybody, regardless of how, where and when they want to play and even how they pay for them then the other 2 combined. Without repeating what I said just above, what are Sony and Nintendo really doing to preserve their games from generations past?

Yes Xbox has some issues with DRM, at the very least Xbox One games should be able to be installed without an internet connection and cross gen games should have a Series X disc edition available to buy.

However look at what the have done, you can buy games from the 360 and original Xbox and play them on their latest console, not only that but if you happened to play a 360 game years ago then they still even have your save file waiting for you. Can PS5 play PS3 games? No and they were about to close it's store as well and continually ignore their own history, PS Now exists but it's just a streaming service where you can't buy the games. Oh and then we have Nintendo who's only way to play it's legacy titles is a subscription and even then it's very limited and worse then what was on offer with the Wii some 15 years ago.

I do wonder why the Xbox is bashed in this regard when they seemingly have done more then the other 2 combined and despite not having the history that either of those have. There seems to be a huge bias towards those two in the media and gaming public but when you really think about what each is doing, then Xbox is doing at least as much for gamers and in most areas, far more

@mousieone I'd be very surprised if it doesn't find it's way on natively as they've been pretty up front about you being able to get your games from other stores and even wiping their OS.

@redd214 essentially it'll be like playing them from a good old style hard drive and perfectly serviceable for most games

@BulkSlash all of them are compatible as its a new OS that has a Windows compatibility layer

@BlueOcean I wouldn't imagine Steam would be against the Gamepass app being supported, they seem more than happy to let you know that you can use the other stores or even replace their OS

@matt1040 basically yes, it's essentially a handheld PC but just going onto Steam and buying games is no different to how you do it on any console and they'll all play on the system without Internet, apart for online games of course

Midway Arcade Origins for me, worth it just for Smash TV but some other classics on there too

I've got the preorder preorder on the 256gb model, really excited to give this a go as there are lots of games available for PC that can't be played on modern consoles

I'll be picking this up but can't say I'm interested in a story mode, just give me the career mode

@The_New_Butler just looking through their website now and found this

Your Steam Library, anywhere
Once you've logged into Steam Deck, your entire Steam Library shows up, just like any other PC. You'll be able to find your collections and favorites - exactly where you left them.

A new Steam operating system
On Steam Deck, your games run on a different operating system than the one on your desktop PC. It's a new version of SteamOS, built with Steam Deck in mind and optimized for a handheld gaming experience. It comes with Proton, a compatibility layer that makes it possible to run your games without any porting work needed from developers. For Deck, we're vastly improving Proton's game compatibility and support for anti-cheat solutions by working directly with the vendors. “Hold on to your butts!”

So yeah all of your games will play

@The_New_Butler I wouldn't say a lot of messing about, even leaving it as is you're going to have most of the online stores to play games from and at 720p it'll run them pretty easily

@NotoriousWhiz @mousieone @The_New_Butler even if it doesn't work with Stream OS, you can simply put Windows on this thing and have Gamepass that way and still have Steam as well

This is really exciting for me, a handheld gaming PC and all of the other possibilities gaming wise with it being a PC. When this comes out I suspect I'll rarely use my Switch as aside from the odd button layout this looks more comfortable to use and performance is no contest.

I can essentially play my Steam library and much of my Xbox library all as basically a handheld console, not to mention it's emulation potential. Bring it on

This will be fun to play with my 4 year old

The dualsense is a nice controller but since moving to Series X I can't say I've missed its features. After the third time I experienced the rain on the controller on Astro Bot I no longer noticed it, similar to how I haven't noticed the HD Rumble on Switch in years and I found the triggers to be quite annoying at times. I much prefer the Series X controller overall

I've got Judgement being delivered this afternoon so I'll be starting that, maybe play a bit of Wreckfest or something similar too

Gold serves very little purpose these days and is just effectively a paywall to online play and one that makes little sense when on the PC side it's not required at all.

That looks awesome, can't wait to play this

As DLSS is hardware based, I doubt these will be matching that anytime soon but the future is certainly in this area. Use the power for ray tracing or higher settings but native resolutions just aren't important anymore

Some 30fps games, perhaps from the 360 like the Sonic games or the Arkham games and fix that mess of a collection

@XxEvilAshxX the biggest downside is the Series S playing One S versions of games, they should have made it capable of at least playing One X patches

Cool it talks a lot, is it fun to play? It did look much better then the Avengers (not really sure if that counts as praise)

As someone who has owned both a PS5 and Series X, there is absolutely no contest between them in usability.

On PS5 I put a cross gen game in, have to tell it not to install the PS4 version every time I wanted to play it, fiddle through menu's to find my cloud saves and hope I don't have to boot the last gen game up to transfer, search through my entire library of games including disc based to find a game to play and no way to organise this mess

On Xbox just sign in and everything is where I already put it, or put a disc in, game automatically is the correct version and automatically gets my save file

@SacredPYRO my stepson and I play Sea of Thieves on Series X and One X and I can sail away before he even spawns into the game 😅

No I kept it, I've just started playing it on Series X and it's really good so far. I am kind of torn about waiting for its actual next gen version though so may just play Yakuza for the time being

@BlueOcean couldn't agree more, its the perfect blend of new state of the art gaming and making some classic games look absolutely stunning as well. It's a dream having a console where I can play the latest Resident Evil game or Yakuza but then just a few seconds later I could be playing Daytona USA or Tales of Monkey Island. Its this perfect blend of modern and classic gaming all with enhancements and game like Sea of Thieves look absolutely amazing.

Both this and PS5 are great consoles but Sony have soured that somewhat with them being less then honest about their intentions and their scummy business practices of charging you extra per game to use the hardware. Even without that there are more games I want to play on my Series X today then on PS5 and many more upcoming over the next few years

For me the Series X has been worth every penny, the only game I've finished that has released since next gen is RE Village. At the moment I'm flicking between Metro Exodus and Yakuza Like a Dragon, with Metro in particular looking pretty sensational, plus the added auto HDR for my older games.

It's definitely been a slow start to the generation but its about to pick up in the next few months. Still some of the upgrades I've seen so far have been great and games like Sea of Thieves feel so much better to play at 60fps and look stunning too.

The best part though is not being charged $10 per game to actually use the hardware I've already paid for, unlike a certain other platform holder and I can honestly say its the best new console I've owned for over a decade

I think its cute that Ubisoft thinks that anyone cares about Aiden Pierce and that he's somehow a selling point. I'll definitely give A Plague Tale a go

@Originut I tried FIFA 21 through Gamepass and it didn't feel anywhere near as good to play as the last Pro Evo I had which was a few years ago now. With Pro Evo I feel the game does what I want to where as with FIFA it just seems to roughly interpret what I've asked it to do

They probably have little choice with so many supporting FIFA despite it not playing as well

OG Doom still great to play but they're all a great time

Had a quick go of Space Jam and its an ok brawler, I'll mainly be playing Sea of Thieves and Yakuza Like a Dragon for the foreseeable and both are a lot of fun

@BlueOcean every time I play Sea of Thieves I'm blown away by how good the water and the lighting looks